The Landscape Tutorial and Me

This has been an interesting and worthwhile tutorial for me. The purpose of the tutorial was to better equip the beginning landscape photographer with the basic skills necessary to improve their technique in the field. As such, the tutorial began with the basics of learning how to critically evaluate your own photographs, through the basic [...]

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Project Day 7

This is the final project for the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in Practical Photography I am attempting to complete. This project calls for you to make a purchase, if you haven’t already done so, of an OS map (or any other topographical map) of your local area. You are to “use its [...]

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Project Day 6

The project for Day 6 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial in Practical Photography is to “Take a series of pictures of either wind-blown foliage or flowing water at a range of different shutter speeds. Then study the effect each shutter speed has had on the area that’s moving during the exposure.” [...]

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Project Day 5

The project for Day 5 is to “practise using ND grad filters at sunrise or sunset. Shoot the scene with and without them and study how this affects your results.” The results of my shoots are below: without ND grad with ND grad 3 I think of all the tutorials so far, this is the [...]

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Project Day 4

The project for Day 4 is to “Check the weather forecast and head out to a location close to home to shoot sunrise and sunset.” Here are my photos: Taken clockwise, the time for the photos are 1) 19:25 2) 19:27 (sunset) 3) 19:29 and 4) 19:31. So, what can we learn from this? Well, [...]

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Project Day 3

The project for Day 3 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial is to “Take a landscape photo using as many composition rules as possible to make your framing visually appealing as it can be.” Here are the results of today’s shoot taken at Inch Castle in Co. Donegal: I am quite pleased [...]

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Project Day 2

The project for Day 2 of the 7 day landscape tutorial is to “Learn how your camera’s metering reacts by taking a series of images with different amounts of sky in the frame. Then assess whether (and why) the pictures are under or overexposed.” Today turned out to be a bit better than yesturday, despite [...]

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Results of Day 1 Project

I attempted to correct the errors of my original picture mainly by changing my viewpoint. Since most of my errors were compositional, I thought that this was the best method. In the shot below, I figured that if you can’t remove them (the distracting tree branches), let them come into the frame. Unfortunately even here [...]

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Day 1: Analyse Your Pictures

This is the first day of the 7 day landscape course in the current issue of Practical Photography I am attempting to complete. The focus today is on discovering your photographic strengths and weaknesses. “Day One and your first lesson is about honesty. What are your own abilities and what do you want to achieve? [...]

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